# Cryptol, version 2 This version of Cryptol is (C) 2013-2016 Galois, Inc., and distributed under a standard, three-clause BSD license. Please see the file LICENSE, distributed with this software, for specific terms and conditions. # What is Cryptol? The Cryptol specification language was designed by Galois for the NSA's Trusted Systems Research Group as a public standard for specifying cryptographic algorithms. A Cryptol reference specification can serve as the formal documentation for a cryptographic module. Unlike current specification mechanisms, Cryptol is fully executable, allowing designers to experiment with their programs incrementally as their designs evolve. This release is an interpreter for version 2 of the Cryptol language. The interpreter includes a `:check` command, which tests predicates written in Cryptol against randomly-generated test vectors (in the style of [QuickCheck](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck)). There is also a `:prove` command, which calls out to SMT solvers, such as Yices, Z3, or CVC4, to prove predicates for all possible inputs. # Getting Cryptol Binaries Cryptol binaries for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows are available from the GitHub [releases page](https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol/releases). Mac OS X and Linux binaries are distributed as a tarball which you can extract to a location of your choice. Windows binaries are distributed as an `.msi` installer package which places a shortcut to the Cryptol interpreter in the Start menu. On Mac OS X, Cryptol is also available via [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/). Simply run `brew update && brew install cryptol` to get the latest stable version. ## Getting Z3 Cryptol currently uses Microsoft Research's [Z3 SMT solver](https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3) by default to solve constraints during type checking, and as the default solver for the `:sat` and `:prove` commands. You can download Z3 binaries for a variety of platforms from their [releases page](https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3/releases). Note that if you install Cryptol using Homebrew, Z3 will be installed automatically. After installation, make sure that `z3` (or `z3.exe` on Windows) is on your PATH. ### Note for 64-bit Linux Users On some 64-bit Linux configurations, 32-bit binaries do not work. This can lead to unhelpful error messages like `z3: no such file or directory`, even when `z3` is clearly present. To fix this, either install 32-bit compatibility packages for your distribution, or download the `x64` version of Z3. # Building Cryptol From Source In addition to the binaries, the Cryptol source is available publicly on [GitHub](https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol). Cryptol builds and runs on various flavors of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. We regularly build and test it in the following environments: - Mac OS X 10.10 64-bit - CentOS 6 32/64-bit - Windows 7 32-bit ## Prerequisites Cryptol is developed using GHC 7.10.2 and cabal-install 1.22, though it is still tested with the previous major version of GHC. The easiest way to get the correct versions is to follow the instructions on the [haskell.org downloads page](https://www.haskell.org/downloads). Some supporting non-Haskell libraries are required to build Cryptol. Most should already be present for your operating system, but you may need to install the following: - [The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP)](https://gmplib.org/) - [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/) You'll also need [Z3](#getting-z3) installed when running Cryptol. ## Building Cryptol From the Cryptol source directory, run: make This will build Cryptol in place. From there, there are additional targets: - `make run`: run Cryptol in the current directory - `make test`: run the regression test suite (note: 4 failures is expected) - `make docs`: build the Cryptol documentation (requires [pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) and [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive/)) - `make tarball`: build a tarball with a relocatable Cryptol binary and documentation - `make dist`: build a platform-specific distribution. On all platforms except Windows, this is currently equivalent to `make tarball`. On Windows, this will build an `.msi` package using [WiX Toolset 3.8](http://wixtoolset.org/), which must be installed separately. ## Installing Cryptol If you run `cabal install` in your source directory after running one of these `make` targets, you will end up with a binary in `.cabal-sandbox/bin/cryptol`. You can either use that binary directly, or use the results of `tarball` or `dist` to install Cryptol in a location of your choice. # Contributing We believe that anyone who uses Cryptol is making an important contribution toward making Cryptol a better tool. There are many ways to get involved. ## Users If you write Cryptol programs that you think would benefit the community, fork the GitHub repository, and add them to the `examples/contrib` directory and submit a pull request. We host a Cryptol mailing list, which you can [join here](http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptol-users). If you run into a bug in Cryptol, if something doesn't make sense in the documentation, if you think something could be better, or if you just have a cool use of Cryptol that you'd like to share with us, use the issues page on [GitHub](https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol), or send email to . ## Developers If you'd like to get involved with Cryptol development, see the list of [low-hanging fruit](https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol/labels/low-hanging%20fruit). These are tasks which should be straightforward to implement. Make a fork of this GitHub repository, send along pull requests and we'll be happy to incorporate your changes. ### Repository Structure - `/cryptol`: Haskell sources for the front-end `cryptol` executable and read-eval-print loop - `/docs`: LaTeX and Markdown sources for the Cryptol documentation - `/examples`: Cryptol sources implementing several interesting algorithms - `/lib`: Cryptol standard library sources - `/src`: Haskell sources for the `cryptol` library (the bulk of the implementation) - `/tests`: Haskell sources for the Cryptol regression test suite, as well as the Cryptol sources and expected outputs that comprise that suite ### Cryptol Notebook (Experimental) The ICryptol notebook interface is now a [standalone project](https://github.com/GaloisInc/ICryptol). ### Cryptol Server and pycryptol (Experimental) This package includes an executable in `/cryptol-server` that provides an interface to the Cryptol interpreter via JSON over ZeroMQ. Currently this is used to support the [`pycryptol`](http://pycryptol.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) library. It is part of this package because we intend to eventually make the console REPL a client of that server as well. The `cryptol-server` executable is included in any builds if the `CRYPTOL_SERVER` environment variable is non-empty when running `make`, for example: CRYPTOL_SERVER=1 make dist # Where to Look Next The `docs` directory of the installation package contains an introductory book, the `examples` directory contains a number of algorithms specified in Cryptol. If you are familiar with version 1 of Cryptol, you should read the `Version2Changes` document in the `docs` directory. Cryptol is still under active development at Galois. We are also building tools that consume both Cryptol specifications and implementations in (for example) C or Java, and can (with some amount of work) allow you to verify that an implementation meets its specification. Email us at if you're interested in these capabilities. # Thanks! We hope that Cryptol is useful as a tool for educators and students, commercial and open source authors of cryptographic implementations, and by cryptographers to * specify cryptographic algorithms * check or prove properties of algorithms * generate test vectors for testing implementations * experiment with new algorithms ## Acknowledgements Cryptol has been under development for over a decade with many people contributing to its design and implementation. Those people include (but are not limited to) Iavor Diatchki, Aaron Tomb, Adam Wick, Brian Huffman, Dylan McNamee, Joe Kiniry, John Launchbury, Matt Sottile, Adam Foltzer, Joe Hendrix, Trevor Elliott, Lee Pike, Mark Tullsen, Levent Erkök, David Lazar, Joel Stanley, Jeff Lewis, Andy Gill, Edward Yang, Ledah Casburn, Jim Teisher, Sigbjørn Finne, Mark Shields, Philip Weaver, Magnus Carlsson, Fergus Henderson, Joe Hurd, Thomas Nordin, John Matthews and Sally Browning. In addition, much of the work on Cryptol has been funded by, and lots of design input was provided by the team at the [NSA's Trusted Systems Research Group](http://www.nsa.gov/research/ia_research/), including Brad Martin, Frank Taylor and Sean Weaver.